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Huffington Post
Don Patrizio Poggi, Convicted Paedophile Priest ‘Arrested For Slander Over Claims Of Vatican Rent-Boy Sex Ring’
Huffington Post UK | By Sara C Nelson
Posted: 01/07/2013
A convicted paedophile priest who claimed a gay prostitution ring has been operating within the Holy Roman Church, has been arrested for slander.
Don Patrizio Poggi was arrested on Friday after prosecutors concluded he had made up allegations that clergymen had hired underage rent-boys for sex, The Times reported.
Poggi, who was defrocked and served a five-year prison sentence for abusing teenage boys at his Rome parish, also claimed a former Carabinieri police officer recruited boys on behalf of nine clergymen, IBTimes reported.
“Poggi conceived and put into action a slanderous plan, presenting circumstances that were false,” the news channel quotes prosecutors as saying.
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